"Eliyahu HaNavi", stories for infants by Yechiel Heilperin, illustrated by M. Gur-Aryeh, Music [musical notes] by Yoel Engel. Fourth booklet in the series "stories-paintings for infants" edited by Yechiel Heilperin. Jerusalem: "Haginah",[1925].
[14] pp, 20X28cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor damages to margin of cover. Handwritten dedication.
"'Eliyahu HaNavi' is one of the most beautiful books ever published in Hebrew, expressing in a wonderful poem the Zionist dream: a boy in the Diaspora asks to go to Haifa by boat, where" Eliyahu HaNavi" will take him in a carriage of fire to the Carmel Cave where he will study the Torah in the company of angels. The peak of this dream is that the child will study the Torah in Eretz Israel… Gur-Aryeh, a student and teacher in 'Bezalel', drew a Yemenite boy. Many of the Yemenites who came to Eretz Israel in the early days of the 20th cent. worked as jewelers in 'Bezalel', and were considered the most authentic Jews representing the ideal of an oriental Jew as well as the ancient, biblical Jew while seen also as an utopian Jew…In the book 'Eiyahu HaNavi' the boy who just arrived on boat and sees the city of Haifa…sees the vision of Eliyahu in a carriage drawn by horses of fire. The carriage with its red horses resembles not only the fire but also the Russian tradition of the Troika [the carriage drawn by a team of three horses harnessed abreast]. Eliyahu whose face is pleasant and generous, with a white beard, dressed as an Arab…it is obvious that Heilperin was hoping to compose a folk-story for children which reflects the Jewish tradition – on the background of a legendary-biblical and at the same time modern Eretz Israel. The combination of oriental-Arab-Yemenite-Russian-European created most probably the new mix of the 'Hebrew'". (from: Ayala Gordon, Hebrew Illustrations – the Hebrew Illustrated Book for Children, Tel-Aviv [2005], pp 148-149.

Das Wunderhaus, ein Bilderbuch zum Drehen, Bewegen und Verwandeln [The Wonder House, a Picture Book to Turn, Move and Change], by Tom Seidmann-Freud. Berlin: Herbert Stuffer, 1929. German. Second printing.
Seidmann-Freud's first children's moveable book (the second, Das Zauberboot, is also on offer in this sale) that upon publication was universally hailed for its innovation.. Das Wunderhaus was revolutionary in the manner in which Seidmann-Freud succeeded in combining her uniquely styled aesthetic illustrations with an intuitive, educational content that not only pleased but also challenged the child reader. The moveable pages include folding parts and a revolving wheel. Three add-on templates allow the reader to play interactive games with the book's contents, enabling adapting individual pages of the book to numerous different storylines.
[6] leaves + three templates laid-in to the rear pocket. Very Good Minus condition. Minor stains and nicks; binding slightly loose, previous owner's name in ink on the inside front cover; repaired tears to one of the templates.

Hob ich mir a lidele. Warsaw: "Kultur Lige", 1922. Yiddish.
Folk songs and songs by Kultur Lige poets, Y. L. Peretz, Leib Kvitka, Der Nistar, Peretz Marakish and others. With illustrations by Joseph Tchaikov (3 illustrations), El Lissitzky, Yissachar Ber Ryback, Marc Chagall and Arthur Szyk (7 illustrations). 72 pp, 19 cm. Good condition. Detached cover, several leaves partly detached, tear to one leaf. Fragile paper.

"Ktina Kol-Bo", by Haim Nachman Bialik. Berlin-London: “Rimon”, 1923.
A children's tale written in rhyme, with b/w illustrations and illustrations in color by A. Bihem and Rachel Shalit-Marcus, in lithographic printing, some in color. “The entire book …was written on stone tablets by …Francesca Baruch.”
[32] pp, 31cm. Good condition. Damages to spine, first and last page are somewhat loose.